In a separate large bowl, add the softened butter, peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Beat the ingredients together until the mixture is smooth and creamy.

Add the egg and the vanilla extract and beat to combine all the ingredients. The mixture will be light and fluffy.

Add the flour mixture to the bowl with the peanut butter mixture. Beat the ingredients together on low until the dough begins to come together. If the dough seems too sticky , you can chill it for 30 minutes.

Place 1/3 cup sugar in a small bowl. Use a tablespoon or cookie scoop to scoop the dough and roll the dough between your hands to form an even ball. Then roll each ball in the sugar until it’s fully coated on all sides. Continue making cookie balls until all the dough has been used

Place each cookie ball on the parchment lined baking sheet. Lightly press the cookies down with your hand to flatten them. Bake the cookies for 8 to 10 minutes, until the bottom of the cookies is golden brown but the tops are still slightly soft.

Immediately after removing the cookies from the oven, press a chocolate peanut butter cup upside down into the top of each cookie. This will be the cute little spider’s body in the cookies.

Allow the cookies to cool for five minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer the cookies to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

When the cookies are cooled, place the chocolate chips in your Wilton piping bag. (You can use other piping bags but make sure your piping bags are microwave safe.). Microwave at 50% power or defrost setting for 1 minute and knead bag. Return to the microwave, kneading at 30-second intervals until chocolate is melted.

Let your melted chocolate stay in the microwave for 30 to 60 seconds before removing. This lets the residual heat from the bag melt any remaining chocolate. Remove bag from microwave and kneed.

Pipe eight legs on the sides of each peanut butter cup to make the peanut butter spider cookies. Also use the melted chocolate to attach two googly eyes to the top of each peanut butter cup to complete your spider snack cookie.

Allow the melted chocolate to cool and harden before serving your peanut butter spider cookies.